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Environmental News Highlights – 9/24/2009

September 23, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living
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According to many experts, we are at or very near “Peak Oil“—the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. Whether we have reached the peak, or perhaps have another decade or more, one thing is certain: oil is a finite [...]

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Farms for the Future

July 30, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

More than 90 percent of all the food grown in the U.S. is reliant on synthetic fertilizer made from petrochemicals. Without it there would be no food for most of us. The soils of America’s industrial agriculture system are dead, compacted and depleted, so without artificial fertilizer, there’s just not enough nutrients for the crops [...]

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